| School Board bans Pizza Day
Posted: 9/9/2008 7:26:25 PM | | Here in Ontario, elementary school kids are now have in their curriculum a mandatory 20 minutes of exercise per day. Vending machines no longer have soda (at least in the K-8 schools my daughter is in). I actually just got my daughter's Health/Gym curriculum and there is a whole unit of Healthy Eating and Healthy Living. Boards of Education cannot do it all, not should they be expected to, but it's a start and I'm happy to see some changes being implemented. Unfortunately, so many extra-curricular and sports activities have been cut due to inadequate educational funding, so many parents have an irrational fear of their kids just being kids playing outside, and so many parents seem almost afraid to limit TV watching and video games, it's no wonder kids don't burn off the fat. Treats every now again are fine with me, but if the Grade 10 student at the drive through greets you by name with your order ready when you pull up, you have a problem... | |
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| School Board bans Pizza Day
Posted: 9/9/2008 8:10:20 PM | | Pizza if made the right way can be very healthy . They can change the dough to whole wheat and cut down on the cheese and the greasy meats. Why not try a new healthier version before banning it? I make my pizza dough with whole wheat flour and load up on veggies like mushrooms, broccoli,peppers , onions and used meat like buffalo meat instead of ground beef and turkey bacon instead of regular bacon. | |
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Posted: 9/9/2008 9:19:46 PM | i think they are doing it all wrong....its about moderation not deprivation.
pizza is not the worst thing a kid could be eating. | |
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| School Board bans Pizza Day
Posted: 9/9/2008 9:24:41 PM |
Pizza if made the right way can be very healthy . They can change the dough to whole wheat and cut down on the cheese and the greasy meats. Why not try a new healthier version before banning it? I make my pizza dough with whole wheat flour and load up on veggies like mushrooms, broccoli,peppers , onions and used meat like buffalo meat instead of ground beef and turkey bacon instead of regular bacon.
That's the first thing I said when I heard about it. | |
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Posted: 9/9/2008 10:04:14 PM | | It would have been no loss at my school. All of our pizza's sucked anyhow it looked like someone just threw some cheeses and suaces on some flat bread and called it pizza. | |
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Posted: 9/10/2008 2:19:57 PM | Sheesh. What else is the public going to have taken away from us? Pizza day or whatever kind of day, was about having lunch with your friends at school. Who cares about pizza having fat in it. It's not like these kids are being given pizza every day (well at least not by the school/teachers).
It's all about control and power. What are they going to try and take away from us next? | |
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Posted: 9/10/2008 4:22:47 PM | I'm hungry for pizza? Anyone want to join me? I have the high school, middle school, and college just across the street........ And I bet I could find pizza in any of the three....
Heck they even have the a pizza place right behind me......
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Posted: 9/10/2008 9:01:19 PM | scorpiomover:
"Whatever happened to good old-fashioned home cooking"
Good old fashioned women having to work outside the home.
And my ancestors ate many more calories than I do......but they worked ...WORKED... more than me. (as Mama said 'if you ain't picked cotton, you ain't worked').
Dayum...to eat what I want I have to work up a HUMUNGUS sweat....or get fat. | |
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Posted: 9/11/2008 3:23:04 AM | This thread really motivated me to try something new. I got ready made pizza crust from local grocery shop. Grilled it with veggie toppings, cut into thin slices and then ate them, shared a small piece with my parrots. 
Then I sent one of the Be Mine Roses that are available in POF to myself as a test. It looks really good and I felt so happy to receive it, felt unbelievable.
Note: I used to eat a lot of cheese pizzas a few years ago and did find the cheese addictive. | |
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Posted: 9/11/2008 8:48:18 AM | As someone mentioned there are healthy pizzas out there. You can opt for a veggie pizza, thin crust, or light crust. I just think parents are getting out of control with what kids can and can't do these days. It all started when threw spanking out the window lol
Strange world we're living in now. | |
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Posted: 9/11/2008 11:38:55 AM | Kids had to pay $1 a slice.,so they made almost 50 cents a slice profit from it
These schools be must using some of the profit to pay-off the Home Economics teachers to let these discs of destruction fly.
"Cheese": Skim Milk, Water, Sodium Citrate, Salt, Sodium Phosphate, Sorbic Acid, Citric Acid, Acetic Acid, Enzymes, Lecithin, Powdered Cellulose. Artificial Color.
"Crust": Enriched Flour, Water, Soybean Oil, Yeast, Salt, Dextrose, Leavening Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Sodium Bicarbonate, Corn Starch, Monocalcium Phosphate, Calcium Propionate, Soy, Wheat. Artificial Color.
The school admins should be tried and convicted for peddling fraudulent food to kids. | |
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Posted: 9/13/2008 6:56:22 AM | "shared a small piece with my parrots."
FAT parrots! Animal abuse!
The family parrot inherited me about a dozen years ago and yes, just like a kid...what you eat you better share.
Ban pizza day?...let's ban happiness. | |
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Posted: 9/13/2008 3:40:40 PM |
Ban pizza day?...let's ban happiness.
happiness and it's evil twin contentment are not healthy. You sit around all relaxed and smiling and aren't on a stairmaster or treadmill. Think of future people thinking back on their schooldays and remembering non-pizza day or soy hotdog day. Makes me shudder to think about it. | |
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Posted: 9/13/2008 8:46:14 PM | "happiness and it's evil twin contentment are not healthy."
So I should not eat yummy things and die of health? Please Last tell me no.....
We (THE family) just bade good-bye to Aunt Elsie....106 of age......fried everything all her life......
I am trying to go vegan...and live unhappily healthy forever.
Ouch again. | |
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Posted: 9/14/2008 6:21:59 AM | | Just keep in mind that soy products contain substances that mimic estrogen hormones. If you feed too muchof that crap to little Timmy, he might need a training bra when he's 12 or 13 ! | |
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Posted: 9/14/2008 8:04:11 AM | Whatever happened to good old-fashioned home cooking, with "eating your greens and tomatoes"?
We live in a fast-food society, dominated by cheap, one dish, low nutrition, high fat, sodium-laced pre-prepared meals. Families often consist of a single parent, or of two who work full-time. So when you come home late and the kids are looking to be fed, the temptation is there to just toss a McCain's pizza in the oven. There is also so much competition between food companies these days, it's incredible. Thirty or forty years ago you would never have seen the assortment of 'pseudo-foods' that now dominate the shelves and freezers in a grocery store. Same holds true for our pets. That's how we've diverted from good old-fashioned home cooking, I believe. And for schools and other such institutions, money is always an issue...the cheapest in-bulk foods available are often what is provided.
Ever see what they serve in some hospitals, to people who are trying to become healthy again....?
*ETA: I should clarify that I'm not against having a pizza day in school; just pointing out that overall the standard NA diet tends to be overtaken by foods that hold next to no nutritional value, or are laden with trans-fats. Obesity is a huge problem here, and fast foods are one of the main sources of that problem. Nutrition begins at home...and fast-food restaurants need to go back to the occasional treat, rather than the norm for meals. | |
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Posted: 9/14/2008 1:44:13 PM | pizza is (flour, cheese, tomato sauce, meat). -whats so unhealthy about that -unless the portions are too large -maybe throw in a salad and fruit -you have a decent meal.
forget the suv: how about letting the kids walk or ride a bike to school.
the pizza in my school was soooooo awful -we neither wanted or could ever get fat off of eating it. | |
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Posted: 9/14/2008 1:49:09 PM |
pizza is (flour, cheese, tomato sauce, meat). -whats so unhealthy about that -unless the portions are too large -maybe throw in a salad and fruit -you have a decent meal.
forget the suv: how about letting the kids walk or ride a bike to school.
the pizza in my school was soooooo awful -we neither wanted or could ever get fat off of eating it.
Agreed - and it's one of the few foods out there where we can cover all 4 food groups! I never had a 'pizza day' but I feel like I missed out. When I think about some of the school food they had available in my grade school days - pizza was one of the few foods from the cafeteria that I could eat without getting grossed out by looking at what I was eating. | |
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Posted: 9/14/2008 3:27:42 PM | | I have to agree with the idea that turn off the video game day or shut off the tv day would do more good. Many kids just aren't active like they used to be. I was rarely ever in the house when I was a kid. Now you have to step over the kids in front of the tv all the time. They've become mishapen furniture. If you aren't careful you might mistakenly try to sit your drink on their heads. | |
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Posted: 9/14/2008 7:04:05 PM | ONE day every so often isnt going to hurt anyone UNLESS they are on very specific diet restrictions
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Posted: 9/14/2008 7:05:05 PM | "pizza is (flour, cheese, tomato sauce, meat). -whats so unhealthy about that "
The flour is bleached (why?) cheese is fat (and salt!), tomato sauce has sugar and salt, and meat......well, let's go kill something for dinner. The American diet has entirely too much meat. And most of our animals have been fed a diet that is unnatual in the real world, filled with growth stimulants and hormones (little Timmy's bra comes to mind).
I would go graze in my yard but the neighbor works in the pesticide biz and I see him spraying all the time...some of those poisons have wandered into my space for sure.
How long can I live on air? | |
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Posted: 9/14/2008 7:18:49 PM | | Everyone wants the easy way of making everyone slim, slender and physicaly fit. Taking pizza off the menu will not do it. It's one meal out of many. It's not stopping a fat lazy kid from eating junk the rest of the time and sitting on his lazy butt. However, Gym class should involve some sort of physical activity. Too many times I can remember when in my high school all you had to do to get an A. Was to dress out into a pair of shorts and t shirt. That's it. You could sit and talk the entire class and still get an A. In middle school we had to do a small physical profile for our grade. We were timed in the 1 mile run and had to do a certain amount of push ups, sit ups and several other things. Every child had to participate in a sporting activity every gym class. | |
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